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Beyond net zero: Ex Patagonia boss leads push into “regenerative” technologies
A new Australian-based venture capital firm featuring ex Patagonia boss Rose Marcario is raising $50 million to invest in what it calls “regenerative” technologies, a step beyond “sustainability” and “net zero” into investments that can help restore damage to the planet and people. ReGen Ventures is seeking $50 million and has already locked in $20 […]
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Glasgow is the real test of Boris Johnson’s floundering ‘global Britain’ | Mujtaba Rahman
Landmark Cops succeeded through leadership and hard graft – something the prime minister’s optimism has blinded him to
When the UK landed the Cop26 presidency two years ago, Boris Johnson sensed a huge opportunity to showcase the UK on the world stage. The conference fit his post-Brexit vision of a “global Britain”, free of the EU and still a player on the world stage.
He believed “Glasgow” would be remembered as a historic gathering, like the previous landmark climate summits in Kyoto and Paris. As recently as the end of September, Johnson told the UN general assembly in New York that the Glasgow summit should be a “turning point”. But then a week ago he began to scale down expectations, admitting success was “touch and go”.
Mujtaba Rahman is the managing director for Europe at Eurasia Group, a political risk research and consulting firm
Continue reading...Cop26: Biden urges action on climate change and vows US will ‘lead by example’
‘Right now, we are falling short,’ US president says, urging other world leaders to embark upon a shift to clean energy
Joe Biden has warned that the climate crisis poses “the existential threat to human existence as we know it” and urged other world leaders to embark upon a transformational shift to clean energy, as questions linger over the US president’s ability to deliver this vision at home.
Biden, addressing a sparse chamber at crucial UN climate talks that have begun in a frigid and drizzly Glasgow, said that the conference must act as a “kickoff of a decade of ambition and innovation to preserve our shared future”.
Continue reading...'Digging our own graves': world leaders open Cop26 with climate crisis warning – video
The UN secretary general, António Guterres, warned that humanity was ‘digging its own grave’ as the Cop26 climate talks opened in Glasgow. He was joined by Boris Johnson, Prince Charles, Sir David Attenborough and the Barbados prime minister, Mia Amor Mottley – all of whom delivered a scathing critique of world leaders’ efforts so far to cut greenhouse gas emissions and stave off climate breakdown
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Cop26 kicks off in Glasgow: in pictures
Images from the 2021 United Nations climate change conference in Scotland’s biggest city
Continue reading...Chaotic scenes outside Cop26, as world descends on Glasgow
Complaints about wait to get in hints at poor organisation at multinational summit
Queues, icy weather, and more queues; as Glasgow’s climate conference kicked off the actual meetings, organisation and admissions continued to be a problem.
A couple thousand delegates and journalists were kept in large crowds queuing outside the conference centre, with Guardian reporters noting that there seemed to have been a lack of planning as no attempt was made to encourage people to queue rather than simply press forward.
Continue reading...Cop26: David Attenborough urges leaders to 'turn tragedy into triumph’ – video
Sir David Attenborough tells world leaders that the Earth's future is defined by a single number: the concentration of carbon in the atmosphere. Speaking at the opening ceremony of Cop26 in Glasgow, the veteran naturalist urges leaders to 'rewrite our story' and 'turn this tragedy into a triumph'. He adds: 'We are, after all, the greatest problem solvers to have ever existed on Earth'
Continue reading...David Attenborough urges leaders at Cop26 to be ‘motivated by hope not fear’
Broadcaster appeals for summit to commit to 1.5C temperature limit to avoid climate catastrophe
Sir David Attenborough has called on leaders at the Cop26 summit in Glasgow to be “motivated by hope rather than fear” to avoid climate catastrophe.
Speaking in front of an audience that included the US president, Joe Biden, at the conference’s opening ceremony on Monday afternoon, the broadcaster and naturalist said humanity was “already in trouble”.
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Climate optimism is an illusion, UN chief tells Cop26
António Guterres says talks may have to become annual and urges countries to ‘choose ambition’
Optimistic assessments of progress on tackling the climate crisis were “an illusion”, the UN secretary general has said in a scathing critique of world leaders’ efforts so far to cut greenhouse gas emissions and stave off climate breakdown.
António Guterres, greeting leaders gathering for the Cop26 summit, roundly dismissed the suggestion that the climate situation was improving, and he exhorted the more than 120 heads of government to “choose to safeguard our future and save humanity” instead of continuing with the addiction to fossil fuels.
Continue reading...No greenwash and no fudges: Cop26’s success depends on leaders telling the truth | Ed Miliband
The world needs to cut 28bn tonnes of emissions, current pledges only come to 4bn. Leaders cannot shy from this reality
• Ed Miliband is the shadow secretary for business, energy and industry
The defining choice facing leaders in Glasgow this week at Cop26 is whether to sugar-coat reality or be honest about the climate emergency, and demand the action that will be necessary to confront it. If we are to have any chance of preventing catastrophe, we must choose truth and candour.
The most important truth is the maths. For all the millions of words spilled about this summit, not enough has been done to spell out its central task. Many leaders say we need to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees, but few say out loud what that means.
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With the planet in peril, we religious leaders must speak truth to power | Jonathan Wittenberg
As Cop26 gets under way in Glasgow, I can’t help but reflect on the UK government’s very un-green budget
- Jonathan Wittenberg is rabbi of New North London synagogue
Two thousand years ago, Ecclesiastes taught that even a king is subservient to the soil. That includes prime ministers and chancellors; we are all dependent on and an interdependent part of nature.
Never before has there been a time when it is so urgent to budget for the benefit of the Earth. I am one of millions who imagined that Boris Johnson’s promise last year to “build back greener” was truly intended. I expected that the government of the country, entrusted with hosting Cop26 – the most important gathering ever for the future of our planet – would show that it means what it says and put its money where its slogans are.
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UK firm appointed for carbon capture FEED study in Germany
Do not trust Brazil’s ‘greenwashing’ promises, say Amazon activists
Campaigners warn Brazil may make empty promises at Cop26 to gain access to conservation money
Amazon forest defenders are urging delegates at Cop26 not to trust the “greenwashing” promises of Jair Bolsonaro’s government, which has wreaked havoc on the environment over the past three years.
Brazil will field one of the biggest delegations at the UN climate talks in Glasgow and fund a lavish promotional pavilion inside the conference centre. According to the agriculture minister, Tereza Cristina Corrêa da Costa Dias, and the environment minister, Joaquim Alvaro Pereira Leite, the message is that Brazil is “a longtime champion of the environmental agenda and an agrifood powerhouse”.
Continue reading...Children surviving the climate crisis – in pictures
Save the Children has been documenting the stories of children living on the frontline of the climate crisis, sending world-renowned photographers to Cambodia, Australia and Pakistan to learn about their lives
Continue reading...Joe Manchin: who gave you authority to decide the fate of the planet? | Daniel Sherrell
My rage against the senator might consume me if I couldn’t set it down here
Late in the evening on Friday 15 October an alert appeared on my phone that seemed at last to portend the end of the world. Two weeks before the UN climate summit in Glasgow – a make-or-break moment for American leadership and international ambition – Senator Joe Manchin had decided to gut our country’s best, and perhaps last, attempt to save itself. With three decades left to decarbonize the global economy, and a window of Democratic control unlikely to recur for years, Manchin’s benefactors in the coal and gas industry had managed to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory, killing the Clean Electricity Performance Program that would finally have brought their lucrative global arson spree under control.
It was hard not to feel like this was game over, a sensation I’d grown accustomed to after a decade working in the American climate movement. It was the same feeling I’d had after the collapse of the Copenhagen climate talks, and the defeat of the Waxman-Markey bill, and the election of a president willing to drown the world to buoy his ego. But though each of those moments felt crushing, the news on the 15th felt worse.
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